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The typology of Asian Englishes /
When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmissio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When considering the structure of New Englishes which have evolved in - multilingual, mostly post-colonial - contexts of Asia (thus, Asian Englishes), the significant factors to be considered are: 1) the variety/ies of the English lexifier that entered the local context; 2) the nature of transmission of English to the local population; and 3) the local, i.e. substrate, languages of the community in which the New English emerges. This third factor is the focus of the five papers in this volume: they investigate the structure of Asian varieties of English by exploring the relationship between th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 120 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027284532 9027284539 9027202524 9789027202529 9781283314756 1283314754 |